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Friday, December 11, 2009

Week 14: Christmas Snowmen/tree assemblage

One of the kids' favorite projects last year was an assemblage of cotton ball snowmen. I decided to revive that idea and also add in the idea of making some Christmas trees as well.

My samples

For the Snowmen, we used cotton balls, twigs, sequins, ribbon, pipe cleaner and other odds and ends. There is no limit to what you can use. White glue or hot glue is needed though so really delicate items or heavy things might not work. I had thought to use buttons, but I could not find my buttons.

For the Christmas trees, I had used fern for the older kids, but probbaly should have dried or pressed the fern first since the fresh fern was either too springy or curled as it dries. For the younger kids I ended up cutting some very nice flat cedar branches. Eiher way, these cards will not last forever, but they are cute.

The younger kids seemed to be more free with the project then the oler kids who had higher expectations. But all the results are super cute!!

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I am a freelance graphic artist, designer and photographer, who also happens to have two young boys at Pleasant Hill Christian School, a small private school in Sebastopol, CA. I teach art to the 60 kids at PHCS.